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Q: SwiftUI - Overlapping Navigation bar In multi-controller hierarchy I'm trying to understand why ScrollView inside a multi-controller hierarchy is no longer animating NavigationBar on scrolling.
Given that I have the following setup:
SwiftUI View:
struct SwiftUIView: View {
  var body: some View {
    ScrollView {
      ...
    }
  }
}

That Lives in the following hierarchy:
UINavigationController->UIHostingController->SwiftUIView
Everything works as expected, as you can observe here (NavigationBar opacity changes as a user scrolls):

But when I change the hierarchy and add another controller in between, it seems like ScrollView is losing "focus" for NavigationBar:
UINavigationController->UIViewController->UIHostingController->SwiftUIView

I assume that given that ScrollView is no longer at the top of the hierarchy, it loses control over the original NavigationBar
Here's demo, if anyone wants to play - https://github.com/ignotusverum/NavigationTesting

PS:
There are different approaches that I can take to make NavigationBar visible; for example, adding .padding(.top) seems to help with that, but NavigationBar is not reacting to the Scrolling action:

Other questions that I researched:

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*SwiftUI Navigation title overlapping

*Navigation bar overlap status bar after push


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Home » Gaithersburg Criminal Lawyer » Gaithersburg DUI Lawyer
Gaithersburg DUI Lawyer
Driving under the influence (DUI) and driving while impaired (DWI) can result in various criminal and administrative penalties. These penalties may include license suspension, fines, and jail time.
Since the consequences of a DUI or DWI conviction can be harsh, you may consider the merits of enlisting a Gaithersburg DUI lawyer to help you through this challenging situation.
A seasoned criminal defense lawyer could ensure that law enforcement officers and prosecutors respect your rights throughout your criminal proceedings. Legal counsel also may be able to negotiate a resolution to your case that can result in fewer or less stringent penalties, depending on your circumstances.
DUI Offenses in Gaithersburg
Maryland Trans. Code § 21-902 generally prohibits individuals from driving while under the influence of alcohol. Driving under the influence (DUI) per se occurs when individuals drive with a blood alcohol content (BAC) measurement of .08 percent or higher. This section also makes it illegal for drivers to operate motor vehicles while impaired by:
Combination of drugs or alcohol
Controlled dangerous substances used illegally
This offense, or DWI, usually relies on evidence that the consumption of alcohol or drugs impaired the regular coordination of the drivers and their ability to drive. One indicator of DWI may be a BAC of .07 percent or more, but less than .08 percent. Transporting minors while under the influence of alcohol also is a separate offense that carries harsher penalties than for simple DUI or DWI.
DUI or DWI charges typically stem from a traffic stop that police officers make for a traffic violation. A traffic stop involves a reasonable suspicion on the part of law enforcement officials that the driver has committed or is about to commit a crime. A DUI lawyer in Gaithersburg may be able to examine the circumstances that led to the traffic stop and ensure that no violation of rights occurred that would justify the suppression of evidence.
Criminal Penalties for a DUI Conviction
A first conviction for DUI can result in up to one year of incarceration and a $1,000 fine. A second conviction that occurs within five years of the prior conviction carries the potential for up to two years of imprisonment and a $2,000 fine, and a third conviction can result in up to three years of incarceration and a $3,000 fine. A DUI conviction also places points on the driving record of individuals and may result in license suspension.
The penalties for a DWI conviction are less stringent. A first-time DWI conviction can result in a 60-day jail sentence and a fine of $500. Second and subsequent DWI convictions will result in progressively lengthier jail sentences and higher fines.
If the DWI or DUI occurred while the individuals were transporting a minor, the potential penalties are more significant. Individuals can serve up to two years in jail and pay a fine of $2,000 for a first offense. As the penalties for DUI and DWI can be severe, individuals may wish to contact a DUI attorney in Gaithersburg for legal advice and counsel.
Additional Collateral Consequences
A DUI arrest or conviction also has administrative penalties through the MVA. An initial DUI arrest results in the driver receiving a 45-day temporary license pending a hearing. Furthermore, a conviction for DUI adds 12 points to the driving record of individuals, which affects their insurance rates.
Typically, an administrative suspension for a first-time DUI in which drivers had a BAC of between .08 percent and .15 percent is 45 days. This suspension period doubles for a second or subsequent offense or if the BAC of the drivers is .15 percent or more. In some cases, drivers may be able to avoid a suspension by installing an ignition interlock device (IID).
Let a Gaithersburg DUI Attorney Assist You
Various factors can impact the outcome of your DUI or DWI charges. Prior history of DUI or DWI convictions, transporting a minor while under the influence, and involvement in accidents all can worsen the penalties that you receive for a DUI conviction. Working with a Gaithersburg DUI lawyer may be the most effective way to fight back against the charges that you are facing.
Defenses do exist in many DUI and DWI cases, from the suppression of evidence due to illegal traffic stops to the improper administration of breathalyzer tests to measure BAC. Whatever your situation may be, legal counsel may enable you to raise the defenses that are applicable in your case.
Gaithersburg Criminal Lawyer

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Cafe Sociale is a millennial's paradise located at 252, Galle Road Colombo, Sri Lanka, (somewhat right next to the Bamba Flats). It's super spacious and has two floors to it.
The ground floor is the more social one while the upper floor is more for business meetings and people who want to sit in a space and work on their laptops.
One thing you will notice is the fact that all the items on the menu are named after famous movies! Also, try and guess what the movie name actually is; it's fun if you want to test your knowledge.
This place has the most picturesque millennial feel to it. It's got some superb wall art and a couple of bean bags and when you enter, it actually feels like a social gathering so I was very pleased with the fact that they named it correctly. The Sociale literally gives a social vibe. It's very well-lit and the darker the outside world gets, the more the colours of the interior decor pop.
While they had an extensive drink menu ranging from hot and cold coffees to fruit juices, I chose the fruity mixture called Pulp Fiction and Apple Seed.
This was a mix of Orange and Passionfruit with fresh mint to give it a spiced up taste; it was a little on the sweeter side and I wasn't particularly in a sweet mood, however, there were two of us and my compadre loved the drink. It's sweet though so I must say if you're not a sweet tooth, this is not the drink for you.
This took the cake for me; however, I've been told that this drink is classified under 'acquired taste'. This drink was made up of green apple, mint, cucumber and lime, which to me, was much like a mojito and it was beyond refreshing. So if it's a hot day and you need something cooling and something that would leave you feeling revitalised, I'd recommend the Apple Seed drink.
So we tried the Beverly Hills Cod, which is a devilled seafood Open Pie, served with some spring onions and mash along with the Sociale signature green salad. The portion was massive, totally worth every cent you pay for it. Also, I'm someone who likes my seafood coupled with sweet sauce and this was a pleasant surprise. You'd think the cafe would be stingy with the actual seafood but they aren't; it was filled with an assortment including cuttlefish. The dish also came with a puff pastry which was so fresh and you could tell it was.
This was the second dish we tried - which is an Irish mutton hot pot served with spring onion and mash. This dish had me dumbfounded because I've always known places to be very stingy with meat, but this, well, this was just full of soft chunks of mutton, and biting into that with some mash mixed with the salad made me feel like I was in a different country. It was better much better than I anticipated and I have never been happier about a dish exceeding my expectations.
Alright. One thing you must know about me is I'm very sceptical when it comes to date based products, but this took the cake. It tasted amazing; it came covered in vanilla ice cream and the pudding in itself was warm and also had caramel sauce on it. Everything in that dished complemented it. It tasted amazing enough to make me second guess the fact that I'm not much of a date fan so I'd recommend that you try it.
We would definitely recommend the sticky date pudding, because it was capable of changing our opinion on date based desserts and if it's that good, we must say it's worth trying, and a tip we would offer is that you have it as soon as it's served because the ice cream melts as the date pudding in itself is hot.
Would we go again: We definitely would go again!
Cafe Sociale isn't a place where you have to feel pressured into buying anything. I had a chat with the owners and their main focus was on bringing a cafe to Colombo where individuals could essentially socialise. Although I must say the food is beyond amazing and you're seriously missing out if you don't try it. Also if you're an individual that loves working in cafes or you're looking for a place that is calm and quiet to work in, Cafe Sociale has a package where they give you the space to do so and 8 hours of uninterrupted WIFI access. There is no dress code, but the portions are huge so I'd say dress comfy.
Parking facilities: Abundantly available, they have a whole area just behind the café.


After going up for auction on Monday, with a starting bid of a hundred thousand dollars, President John F. Kennedy's boat is still for sale. Nobody has yet taken the chance to add their name to a long line of owners, ranging from the young President to, far less reputably, a pot smuggler.
The sailboat is a twenty-two-foot International Star sloop, a class designed by the draftsman Francis Sweisguth in 1910, according to Heritage Auctions, which organized the sale. The relatively tall mast and narrow hull give the boat a massive mainsail, which made it extremely responsive and sensitive to touch but also meant it was tricky to handle and required tremendous skill to race. The Star class has been used for the Olympic keelboat event since 1932, with the exception of the 1976 games. More than eight thousand Stars have been built since 1910. Kennedy's boat, Star No. 721, was built in 1929 and 1930 by the original owner, H. B. Atkin, of Manhasset Bay, Long Island. Atkin raced it under the name Jubilee from 1930 to 1933.
Flash II with Jock Kiley at the helm jumped to an early lead. The boat was running true to form, when in the middle of the race both boats were becalmed. As a little breeze began to stir, Jack took a different lark, as he often did. In the trailing position, he was the first to feel the effect of the wind. He hugged the shore line where the breeze was freshest and began to close the distance, managing to pull ahead at the end and—just barely—to win the race. There was no more switching of boats after that.
Kennedy went on to win the Nantucket Sound Star Class Championship that year, and then competed in the 1937 Atlantic Coast Star Class Championships, winning one race by a massive four-minute margin. He raced Flash II at Harvard, as well, and won the prestigious McMillan Cup on the Chesapeake Bay in Annapolis, in 1938.
Kennedy joined the Navy in 1942 and shipped off to the Pacific, where he sailed on a much bigger vessel, the PT-109. Flash II, meanwhile, passed along a series of owners: Millard Vanderwald, of Casco Bay, Maine, sailed her under the name until 1948, when he sold it to Ken Schwartz, of Larchmont, New York. Schwartz raced her out of Larchmont Yacht Club for two years before selling to Richard Percoco, of Mamaroneck, New York, who bought her with money he earned from delivering newspapers. He sold the boat to Charles Morgan in 1962, who in turn sold it to D. William Ehler, of Clearwater, Florida, in 1963, the year Kennedy was killed, for a reported three hundred dollars. In 1972, the boat was moved to a shed, which is where it remained until Ehler died, in 1996, at which point the vessel went up for auction.
Enter Gregory Olaf Anderson. Anderson had the idea to restore the old boat and, based on its historical pedigree, sell it for at least a million dollars. He assembled a group of investors and purchased the boat for nineteen thousand eight hundred dollars at an auction in Monticello, Florida, in 1996.
With the help of a shipwright at the Marblehead Trading Company, a boatyard in Massachusetts, Anderson stripped off several layers of fibreglass to expose the original wood hull, repaired the old spruce mast and keel, replaced the pine deck, refinished the hull, and spent weeks applying eleven coats of paint. Finally, after the fittings were polished and the teak varnished, the boat was ready. Anderson and his investors sunk approximately seventy thousand dollars into Flash II, according to court documents, and occasionally exhibited the boat at nautical museums and boat shows. "I'd like to see somebody sail her for a summer and then give her to the museum. That would be great," Anderson told the Associate Press in 1997. "I'd love to be the crew."
But Anderson would never get the chance. In December, 2001, he was arrested in Arizona with more than thirteen hundred pounds of marijuana in his truck and was sentenced to eighteen months in state prison. Anderson was in fact transporting the marijuana for one of his investors; after his arrest, he agreed to stay silent in exchange for payment—including the investor's share of the Kennedy boat. After his release, Anderson was still planning to sell the boat when, in 2004, it was seized by the Drug Enforcement Agency: Anderson's investor was coöperating with the authorities, and tipped them off to the likely pot-financed sloop.
The boat was auctioned off by the U.S. Marshals Service in 2005, where it was purchased for a hundred and twenty thousand dollars by its current owner, Frank Harvey, a Houston businessman who volunteered for Kennedy's 1960 Presidential campaign and now collects Kennedy memorabilia. Flash II had been sitting in his backyard under a tarp. After a decade, Harvey was ready to sell Kennedy's boat. He said that he's downsizing.
Harvey told me that Anderson turned down an offer for eight hundred thousand dollars before he was arrested and sent to prison. Anderson, according to court documents, believed that he could sell it for more than a million. "That was the biggest mistake of his life," Harvey said. "I think Olaf got screwed."
But Harvey thinks that Flash II is worth a million dollars, too—a figure largely based on Kennedy nostalgia. He also believes that Anderson's ownership adds to the boat's story. "It puts a little romance in it," he says. "I can't see it hurting the value."
That romantic patina was not enough to move the boat, however. On Monday, there were no bidders. So, for the next two weeks, Flash II is on the block for a hundred thousand dollars.
Ben Miller, who restores boats in Texas, readied the boat for its latest auction and took her out for a quick test sail. Other than a leak around the rudder, the boat is in great condition, he says, though by no means for everyday sailing: the rigging is questionable, and he doesn't trust the mast. "It handled just fine," Miller said. "But it's a boat that belongs in a museum."
Kennedy owned a number of boats in his lifetime, and sailing was never far from his mind. On November 21, 1963, he slept at the Rice Hotel in Houston, before flying to Dallas the next day. Sometime that night, he sketched in pencil a simple drawing on hotel stationary. It was a small sloop, sleek on a full keel.


Flyp.me, the instant accountless exchanger, has just listed TrueUSD (TUSD) bringing the total number of available coins and tokens to 30. This move provides users with instant access to TrueUSD, just using their preferred wallet while maintaining control over their private keys.
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Lancaster District School No. 6, also known as the Little Red Schoolhouse, is a historic school building located at Lancaster in Erie County, New York.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

References

External links
 Lancaster NY Historical Society
 Waymarking information

School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Italianate architecture in New York (state)
School buildings completed in 1868
Museums in Erie County, New York
Education museums in the United States
Historical society museums in New York (state)
National Register of Historic Places in Erie County, New York

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Q: Sort order of result for "Find All References" in Visual Studio I'm currently using Visual Studio 2010, but I don't think this is a version specific issue (think it was the exact same way in 2008 as well).
When I want to find out where in my solution some variable/function/whatever is used, I right-click it and select "Find All References". This gives me a long list in the Find Symbol Results view over all existing references. This list however, is quite messy. The results seem to be ordered by which file they are in, but it stops there. They are neither sorted by line number nor anything else slightly logical (at least that I can see...).
If I do the same kind of operation in e.g. Eclipse, I get a nice list where the search results are nicely ordered by file, then function and line number in the file. Is there a way I can achieve the same in Visual Studio (some preference to specify perhaps)? Or is this just one of those silly things where Visual Studio is completely hopeless? Or is there simply some brilliant sort ordering logic that I'm missing?
It's not like this is a very big problem, but it makes it quite much easier when you look through the references of a variable if it is in some kind of logical order...
Update:
Just to clarify: I know there are other add-ons and tools like ReSharper etc. that does these kind of things much better than Visual Studio. I'm interested if it is possible to "sanitize" the search-output from Visual Studio's existing "Find All References". And if not - what on earth is the logic behind their current sorting order (there has to be some logic, because I seem to get the same order in the results whenever I search for the same variable).

A: I pinged the VS team on this one and it turns out that the reason for the wierdness is that Find All References is based on strings instead of numbers.  This is why you see 1,2, 25, 3, 35, 4, etc...  They are tracking it as a bug and it is slated to be fixed but the timeline is unknown.

A: The workaround I am using is to create a collapsed region of 10,000 empty lines at the top to force the 6,000+ lines of code in this function (that I didn't write) to sort by line number correctly using the "Find All References" feature.  I keep this region of empty lines in a separate text file and temporarily copy and paste them to the top of the source code when I am frustrated with how the search results are sorting.

A: You could try using 'View Call Hierarchy' (Ctrl-K + Ctrl-T (VS2010)) for certain things instead. It sorts alphabetically by the looks of things. Or tools like CodeRush Express or ReSharper (not free) usually have nicer search facilities than those offered by visual studio.
http://www.devexpress.com/Products/Visual_Studio_Add-in/CodeRushX/

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Internet users don't trust what they see online (especially influencers) -study
The vast majority of internet users lack any confidence in what they see and read online, especially from celebrities and vloggers, according to new research.
The study, from media agency UM, indicates that only 8% of them globally think that three-quarters or more of the information they get from social media is true – dropping to 4% when it comes to information from supposedly trusted influencers like celebrities and bloggers/vloggers.
By comparison, even governments are seen as more trustworthy than most influencers – 12% think governments are mostly truthful, although falling to 8% and 6% in the UK and US respectively.
The findings are from Wave X – Remix Culture, the tenth global social media tracker carried out by media agency UM. Surveying more than 56,000 active internet users across 81 countries, it found that in an age of increasing uncertainty many people worldwide simply don't trust what they see online, particularly on social media:
•	More than half of UK internet users (54%) believe most of the news they see online is fake. A similar 46% of all users worldwide agree
•	Less than half (44% in the UK, 47% globally) now say they're influenced by opinions shared online, compared to 46% (globally 54%) in 2017
•	Around half (47% both globally and in the UK) say they have less faith in experts and institutions than they used to
•	Less than half trust bloggers/vloggers' opinions on products and services (only 36% in the UK, 42% globally).
Liz Haas, Head of Client Insight EMEA at UM, says: "The research highlights how headlines over the past two years have made people more aware of issues surrounding credibility and transparency on the internet. This is particularly the case with social media – scandals like Cambridge Analytica have had a huge impact on the extent to which people question what they see and hear online.
"Legislation like the EU's GDPR is working towards rebuilding that trust, particularly regarding what is done with our personal data, but brands will also have a key role to play over the coming years. It's clear that trust is fast becoming the currency of the new internet, and brands able to demonstrate that they're transparent and responsible in the moments that matter are going to be best placed to succeed."
Falling out of love with online social spaces
The study also paints a picture of changing attitudes towards our digital lives, with people starting to feel less tied to social media. The percentage of respondents globally who 'worry about missing out if they don't visit their social networks' dropped by 4% from the Wave 9 study in 2017, from 50% to 46% – and from 41% to 39% in the UK.
And when asked which platforms people worldwide would describe as a 'great place for someone like me', the non-interactive sites Netflix and YouTube came first and second (with 28% and 27% agreeing, respectively), with Spotify third on 27%. The 'traditional' interactive social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat all ranked outside the top five.
Where social networks still have a role are as an enabler of communities and in fostering a sense of belonging. More than half of internet users (51% in the UK, 60% globally) consider those networks to be 'an integral part of their social life'. The number of people who say that online social platforms as a whole help them to feel that they belong is up by 5% globally and by 4% in the UK compared to the Wave 5 survey in 2010.
Liz Haas comments: "In an era in which the divisions between people are bought into sharp focus by events like Brexit, it's clear consumers believe that social media has an important role to play in enabling them to feel a sense of community. This is often shaped by moments, which may be defined by how we come together in response to broader socio-political and economic events, or by the shared dates and cultural rituals within more tightly defined groups or subcultures.
"Either way, the social networks still have a vital role to play in how each of us shape our identities. Brands can tap in to this but have to think carefully about how they use social platforms to engage people at the specific moments that matter to them without being invasive."
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Alexandra Hotel Developers to Put Project Up for Sale as Financing Unravels
by Seth Daniel • September 9, 2020 • 1 Comment
With the latest news of the Alexandra Hotel project going up for sale, more than a few people have postulated that the building could realistically be cursed.
No development project in all of Boston is likely as challenging as the Alexandra Hotel – long vacant mostly – on the corner of Mass Avenue and Washington Street, and no project has had as many confounding disappointments over many years as the project.
The latest attempt by a group of highly-qualified developers has now also hit the skids, as the hotel project they proposed will now be put up for sale, according to Jas Bhogal of Alexandra Partners.
He said this week they have not put the project on the market yet, but that is the plan at the moment. He said so much has been affected by COVID-19, both health and livelihoods, that the project's financing has fallen apart.
"Sadly, the hospitality industry is one of the most affected industries," he said. "As a result, traditional financing vehicles that would normally provide the resources necessary to build a hotel are simply not present at this time. We believe in the project and we are going to pursue new investors to move forward with the existing plan. We will list the property for sale as permitted so that potential equity partners or buyers can see what we, the Roxbury Community and the South End Community want for this historic site."
The development team isn't abandoning their role in the project, said South End Forum Moderator Steve Fox, but they are looking for new financing partners in putting the project up for sale.
It is particularly disappointing, Fox said (who was an Impact Advisory Group member for the project), that after all of the project reviews, community mitigation, zoning board discussions and Landmarks approvals – a pandemic hit and destroyed what had finally been a winning plan.
"That particular project is one of the greatest sources of frustration to the South End community consistently over decades," he said. "The good news is they want to find a partner. It will be listed for sale as a hotel. It won't be offered as a parcel to be raised and to build luxury condos."
He said he was told by the development team that the situation to put the project up for sale was not weighted by the increasing impacts of homelessness and drug use near the property. Many thought that was the case, but Fox said it doesn't appear to have factored into the decision. However, he said he had always hoped that the hotel would put much needed foot traffic in the area and create a more vibrant commercial corridor to mitigate the Mass/Cass problems.
"It looks like that renaissance has been delayed," he said.
Bhogal said they are very excited about the project, and put all they had into it. He said they will continue, but perhaps with new partners.
"We love the project, the building and the neighborhood," he said. "We poured our hearts into this effort, working countless hours with the community, the elected officials, the BPDA and the South End Landmarks. We will continue to work alongside the community to ensure the Alexandra sees a bright future."
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Bondholders suing Puerto Rico
Ricardo Arduengo

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 29, 2015, file photo, a bronze statue of San Juan Bautista stands in front of Puerto Ricoís Capitol as U.S. and Puerto Rican flags fly in San Juan, Puerto Rico. After months of pleading from the government of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Congress agreed on Wednesday, May 18, 2016, to help the territory restructure its massive public debt. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo, File)

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Holders of bonds from Puerto Rico's Government Development Bank are suing to challenge aspects of a debt-moratorium law that island officials say is crucial to maintaining essential services as the U.S. territory struggles under a nearly $70 billion debt load.
The amended federal lawsuit filed late Friday in the U.S. District Court in San Juan names Puerto Rico's governor and treasury secretary as well as an unidentified bank receiver. It argues that amendments to the law prioritize the rights of certain creditors at the expense of others in violation of U.S. and Puerto Rican law.
Phone calls to the Office of the Governor went unanswered Saturday, and officials did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment. Island authorities have said in the past that they expected creditor lawsuits in the absence of bankruptcy protections.
The Ad Hoc Group behind the lawsuit comprises five investment funds that hold $900 million of the GDB's nearly $4 billion in outstanding debt.
The GDB defaulted on the bulk of a $423 million payment due May 1, but also announced a tentative debt-restructuring deal with the group that would offer it a recovery rate of about 50 cents on the dollar.
"Notwithstanding the Commonwealth's unconstitutional actions, the members of the Ad Hoc Group understand that the Commonwealth faces significant challenges and want to continue working with GDB, as they have for over a year, to achieve a fair, equitable and mutually beneficial restructuring," the bondholders said in a statement.
Other creditors are also challenging an executive order issued this year by Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla to "claw back" revenue supporting different bonds and use the money for to pay for essential services and government debt obligations.
And this month, bond insurer Ambac Assurance Corp. filed suit to seek the appointment of a receiver at the Puerto Rico Highways & Transportation Authority, charging that the government was illegally taking money from the public corporation to pay for other debts.
Puerto Rico government entities are barred from using federal bankruptcy laws, and a local bankruptcy law was struck down as unconstitutional by federal courts. Officials say that because Puerto Rico is barred from reorganizing debts under a bankruptcy framework, they have no choice but to use the new law to declare debt moratoriums to maintain essential public services.
The House Committee on Natural Resources will hold a markup session next Tuesday and Wednesday on legislation to address Puerto Rico's fiscal crisis. The measure would create an oversight board to ensure that Puerto Rico begins running balanced budgets and would also have the power to authorize the restructuring of existing debt.
The U.S. Supreme Court is also reviewing decisions that overturned the local bankruptcy law.


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import com.facebook.buck.model.ImmutableFlavor;
import com.facebook.buck.rules.HashedFileTool;

import java.nio.file.Paths;

public class CxxPlatformUtils {

  private CxxPlatformUtils() {}

  public static final CxxPlatform DEFAULT_PLATFORM =
      CxxPlatform.builder()
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          .setAs(new HashedFileTool(Paths.get("tool")))
          .setAspp(new DefaultPreprocessor(new HashedFileTool(Paths.get("tool"))))
          .setCc(new DefaultCompiler(new HashedFileTool(Paths.get("tool"))))
          .setCpp(new DefaultPreprocessor(new HashedFileTool(Paths.get("tool"))))
          .setCxx(new DefaultCompiler(new HashedFileTool(Paths.get("tool"))))
          .setCxxpp(new DefaultPreprocessor(new HashedFileTool(Paths.get("tool"))))
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          .setStrip(new HashedFileTool(Paths.get("tool")))
          .setAr(new GnuArchiver(new HashedFileTool(Paths.get("tool"))))
          .setSharedLibraryExtension(".so")
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          .build();

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Match Day 11. Ards vs QUBFC.
Ards vs QUBFC.
Saturday October 5th at 3.00 p.m.
Although unbeaten in their last four games, two consecutive draws mean that four points have been dropped and Ards need a win to at least keep pace with Portadown who now top the table with a 10 point lead over the Red and Blues.
Following promotion last season Queens started their Championship season well with three wins in the first five games, but they haven't picked up a single point since and have lost their last five league games, as well as that 5-0 defeat to Ards in the County Antrim Shield. During those six defeats only three goals have been scored, while 20 have been conceded, in fact in the league only Ballyclare and PSNI have conceded more than Queens. In contrast only two two teams have conceded fewer than Ards, the main problem for the home side at the moment is at the other end of the pitch, with just 13 goals scored in ten league games, only the Welders and Knockbreda have scored less, so don't expect a high scoring game!
Ards fans will be hoping that David McAllister is fit to return, although this may be a week too soon for him. Johnny Taylor definitely misses out as he is he serves the second of his three match suspension, but Dylan Wilson should be available after missing last week's 1-1 draw with Dundela. The Queens squad features Jonah Mitchell, Matthew Torrens and Marc McKenna who will all be familiar to Ards fans.
Match Sponsor : Guiseppe's Italian Pizzeria, Newtownards.
Ball Sponsor : Prime Shine Car Wash, Newtownards.
Referee : Mark Dillon.
1st Assistant : Gavin Andrews.
2nd Assistant : Jamie Patterson.


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Q: How did the Enterprise lower the Reliant's shields in Wrath of Khan? In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, there is a scene in which the Enterprise finds itself

 Under attack from the USS Reliant, which has been commandeered by Khan.

Right at the most critical moment of the battle however,

 Kirk transmits some sort of code to the Reliant, shutting down the hostile ship's shields and allowing the Enterprise to damage the Reliant and escape.

What exactly did Kirk transmit, and how did it manage to affect the Reliant so dramatically?
In addition, could any Starfleet officer with a transmitter and knowledge of the proper code do this? And if so, why isn't it ever seen again?

A: The codes are meant to limit a ship's commands to its own ship.  The implication is that the command to lower shields is transmitted from the console (rather than across a physical wire).  There are a number of reasons why that would be - (1) you don't want damage to the ship to break the communication to the shields (effectively leaving the ship without shields the first time it got hit unawares), and (2) there are likely multiple sources of the shields scattered around the surface of the ship (complete assumption on my part, please confirm or refute if you have definite knowledge).
What Kirk did was to switch his command transmission to use the Reliant's code... rather than lowering his own shields, the command to lower shields was picked up by the Reliant as a command issued from its own console.

A: It is seen again, sort of...
In TNG: Peak Performance, Commander Riker captains the 80 year old starship USS Hathaway in a wargames simulation against the Enterprise.

The Hathaway hacks the Enterprise's sensors to fool them into believing a Romulan warbird is near.

Later,

The Hathaway uses the same technique against a Ferengi vessel that was threatening both ships.

It's not exactly the same, but it is still hacking another starship's computer.

A: The transcript explains it:

SPOCK: Reliant's prefix number is one six three zero nine.
SAAVIK: I don't understand.
KIRK: You have to learn why things work on a starship.
SPOCK: Each ship has its combination code.
KIRK: To prevent an enemy do what we're attempting.
  Using our console to order Reliant to lower her shields.
SPOCK: Assuming he hasn't changed the combination. He's quite intelligent.

So:

*

*Kirk transmitted orders to lower shields, prefixed with Reliant's code

*Any officer with a transmitter and knowledge of the proper code AND ship's code could do this.

A: Kirk gained remote control of the Reliant

He set quickly to work. Saavik watched the prefix code thread its way
through the schematics and dissolve Reliant's defenses. She understood
suddenly what Kirk intended to do: transfer control of Reliant to the
Enterprise and lower its shields.
—The Wrath of Khan (novelization)

Kirk was able to look up the command codes in the database of the Enterprise:

Kirk spoke softly and out of range of the highly directional
transmitter mike. "At least we know he hasn't got it. Just keep
nodding as though I'm giving orders. Lieutenant Saavik, punch up the
data charts on Reliant's command console. Hurry."
—The Wrath of Khan (novelization)

It seems likely that anyone with knowledge of the prefix code could indeed take control of the ship.  However, most of the time Kirk (or other captains) is not contending with another Starfleet vessel. As such, there would be no way to shut down the ship's shields. Starfleet databases presumably do not contain Klingon command codes, for example. It is also possible that non-Starfleet ships might use an entirely different (and unknown) transmission frequency.


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"Reflection Part 1: Disability, Gender, and Collective Freedom" Transcript
Suzie Lahoud: You know, I had a conversation with Sy after we had that discussion with Dr. Hardwick and he was saying, "You know, pregnancy is actually considered, legally, it's considered a disability." If I'm honest, prior to that podcast episode, Sy, if you had said that to me, some of my sort of feminist inclinations would have been like, "No, it's not," because something in me had to change in the way that I view disability. That you saying that is not telling me that I am less than or…
Sy Hoekstra: No, I'm saying, "Welcome to the club."
Suzie Lahoud: You know, I'm like, "Well, if I'm in the club with Sy and Dr. Hardwick, you know, I'm in good company." I don't need to try to hide this and pretend that this isn't happening. I can embrace that and, yeah, be liberated in that.
[The song "Citizens" by Jon Guerra fades in. Lyrics: "I need to know there is justice/That it will roll in abundance/ And that you're building a city/ Where we arrive as immigrants/ And you call us citizens/ And you welcome us as children home." The song fades out.]
Sy Hoekstra: Welcome to Shake the Dust, leaving colonized faith for the Kingdom of God, a podcast of KTF Press. My name is Sy Hoekstra, here with Jonathan Walton and Suzie Lahoud. And we, today, are going to do a little bit of processing. This is something we're going to do every now and then, periodically. We're not sure exactly how often. Don't worry, we're not going to make you have listened to all of our podcasts in order to understand what we're talking about today, but we are going to kind of be going through some of the things that we've been learning and stopping to think about how all of the people that we've been interviewing, the things- the great things that they've been saying, kind of fit into our framework of leaving colonized faith for the Kingdom of God.
And this is something, you know, a lot of podcasts do this. They usually, they typically do it like a little bit further in, I think, than we are right now. But the reason we want to do this right now is because, you know, like we said in the intro episode, we don't want to be just kind of churning out content all the time for the sake of being churning out content every week. We want to be, you know, taking time to sort of chew on what we're learning and really sit with it and meditate with it and not just kind of move on to the next thing.
Just remember, if you like this show, the best way to support us is to go to ktfpress.com and subscribe and to be like a monthly or an annual subscriber. We would really appreciate it. It helps support this show in a lot of ways. It helps support our future book projects that we have planned. And it gets you a weekly newsletter. It gets you bonus episodes of this show. And it gets you writing from the three of us. And, if you haven't checked out the blog yet, we would really, really appreciate it if you did.
So just as a quick reminder, we're, you know, the kind of framework under which we're doing all of this stuff, like we always say, is "leaving colonized faith to the Kingdom of God." And, you know, we talked in our intro episode about what we mean by that- the idea of faith, the idea of Christianity developed in, you know, colonial Europe and the United States over the past few hundred years that is designed to sort of both like maintain and uphold, you know, these idolatries of power and prosperity and security that kind of developed within that context to both accommodate them and uphold them, I should say. So that's kind of our framework.
And I want to open it up to both of you now and just ask, give me a thing or two, something that you have heard from one of our guests that you found particularly important or that impacted you in a particular way. And give me a sense of how you've been thinking about it, how it's been affecting your faith or your spirituality.
Jonathan Walton: So basically, the two biggest things, I think, that have stuck out to me- without going on at length about every single guest…
Sy Hoekstra: Because we could!
Jonathan Walton: Because we could. Two things that struck me: the first one was the conversation with Reverend Dr. Lamar Hardwick, who talked about the propensity for me to- I'll say me cause I don't want to speak for everybody- to make heaven my type of heaven, so heaven would be comfortable for me. And something that I think he introduced in the podcast was this idea that Jesus was still wounded when he visited Thomas, and this was Jesus resurrected, this was Jesus after the Father had raised him from the dead. And I thought to myself, "Okay, well, what would that mean for me?" And if I am accepted on that side of heaven, perhaps I need to work to accept the limitations that I have on this side of heaven. The humanity, my humanity, is not an evil thing. So what stood out to me is, the way that my body works, the way that my body is, the limitations that I have, the stuff that makes me me, could still be good on the other side of heaven. And so every limit I think is a limit, everything that I might judge or think that needs to be fixed, that God accepts me and I am good enough. That's something that I've been wrestling with ever since that conversation.
Sy Hoekstra: Can you give us like a little snapshot of how you've been wrestling with that personally?
Jonathan Walton: Yeah. So I think two things: one, just the idea of people not being healed is something that I think I've- having, you know, lost my mom, and lost my father-in-law, and lost like aunts and other people who passed away- I think, like my aunt has a chronic illness because of a stroke, and thinking about her being in this condition and she is trying to bend herself to fit in a world that's not made for her, when Jesus seems to bend the Kingdom of God to work for people like her. And I just wish we could do that more. And to be honest, like I, you know, our church, ever since I read his book and, you know, he talked about when the pandemic hit, all of a sudden we had resources for everybody who's sick and shut in, right. And like, I literally said to our church plant- like, it's a new church- and I said, "Look," you know, "there are people that this was better for. Like, can we do that?" And in a church plant it's all play. Like if you bring up a problem, you need to bring up a solution. And I don't, I don't have the capacity to create a solution right now. I take care of two kids full-time and work full-time and take… and I'm like,
Sy Hoekstra: And do this.
Jonathan Walton: And do this. And I'm like, I advocated for something, and then couldn't follow through because of my own, just limitations. And I've cut out what I can cut out, or what I think I should cut out at this point. And I'm like, "Okay, I have to lament that our church doesn't have capacity to do that right now." And so, yeah, that's a big place for me. And then, I think, I've had insecurities about my own body since I got made fun of as a teenager. And so trying to see my body as good. When I look in the mirror that I, that God is satisfied with me, yeah, has been a struggle. And I'm not saying that anything is, you know, objectively wrong with Reverend Dr. Hardwick at all. It's just, when he talked, it illuminated something different for me.
Sy Hoekstra: Yeah. You're not saying he's wrong, but you're working with the reality that a lot of society says he's wrong.
Jonathan Walton: Yes, exactly.
Sy Hoekstra: And his perspective from that. Yeah. I, there's so much tied up in disability and body image that's a, there are a lot of, we didn't get into this in the episode, but there are a lot of stereotypes around like, not- I don't know if stereotypes is the right word- but a lot of people think about disabled people as kind of non-sexual beings and like not attractive beings, you know, just because you're, in a lot of ways, unable to fulfill the ideals of what either men or women should be. It's both, frankly. We talked with Kristin Du Mez about- remember I talked with her about how, like impossible it is for me to be the kind of man that a lot of society, a lot of the church, a lot of Christian leaders want me to be. And so that just leads to a lot of, just complications when it comes to romance, frankly.
Jonathan Walton: So the second thing that stands out to me is Professor Kristin Du Mez's book and the conversation with her. The thing that I just keep rolling around in my brain is, "What the heck was I taking in as a college student?" Like the period of time that she was mentioning, I was 18 years-old. I had just left Virginia and was in New York. And like the first book that I got…
Sy Hoekstra: You mean like the mid- 2000s, kind of?
Jonathan Walton: Yeah. So I graduated in '04. From '04 to '08 I was in college and like, yeah, the first book that I got from my best friend was John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life. I did not read that book, but I got it. I read like the first few pages of it and I was like, "This, this is not for me." But I did read, like from cover to cover because of my Bible study, I read Wild at Heart. And I had questions, but I didn't question it. And I did not question its impact.
And I think I mentioned this before in another conversation, that I had a conversation with someone who is male, who was wrestling with what it would look like to follow Jesus around his sexuality. And he said, you know, his parents wanted a girl. And they dressed him up as a girl and they gave him a dress and they did all of these things and he was so angry.
And we were walking down the street and he said to me, "Jonathan, you know, you're the epitome of what it means to be a man. And I'm just not that." And he had, we didn't know each other. Like we'd probably known each other for three or four months. And I said to him, I said, "You know, what you think of me as a man is shaped by the media in your country. Like I'm not what you're imagining."
Sy Hoekstra: He wasn't from the US?
Jonathan Walton: He wasn't. He was from Singapore. And I said, "You know," I said, "just because I have on a durag and timbs,"at the time, "but I'm not what you've seen on television at all. Like, yes, there are things I know how to do because I am from a rural area. But none of these things make me a man." But there was nothing that I could say that could tell him any differently, because we've just read this book in our Bible study that told him what manhood was.
And so those two conversations, I think. And all of them have to do with my physical body and how I'm perceived, both of those things, and how I relate to other people and relate to God in the most intimate way. Like, the body I inhabit every day. And so those, yeah, those things were really, really impactful and I'm still thinking about them.
Suzie Lahoud: That just makes me think, Jonathan, that's such a great insight that both of the things that sort of ended up being most impactful to you are related to your body and how you relate to it. And that just makes me think how much our sense of our embodiment and our experience of that is wrapped up in this idea of decolonization of our faith. Because colonization is about commodification of the human body. And so, you know, being able to reclaim that idea that, you know, when God created us, he said, "It is good." And moving away from that false dichotomy of body and soul, and soul is good and body is bad. And, you know, that crept in through philosophy and all of that, and getting back to a fuller picture of our humanity and being able to embrace that and reclaim that and be liberated physically and spiritually and emotionally.
Sy Hoekstra: Yeah. So another thing Dr. Hardwick said, remember, was that part of our colonial economy here related to slave labor, right, was about the most valuable people having bodies that could produce the most, right. And when he- like not valuable in an abstract sense, like how much, but I mean, literally, how much money someone would pay to own that person, right. We broke it down to that level and yeah, it is, it's not, I think, a coincidence that we in this society way overvalue how much you can produce and, or like how healthy and good you look; how many utilitarian things you can do because you grew up on a farm, Jonathan. Stuff like that is overvalued.
I think sometimes there's like a lot of progressive-y sort of language about, you know, embodiment and like understanding your body and being more comfortable in your body and listening to what your body's telling you. And I think sometimes that can seem a little abstract for people, but like, this is the connection here, is like, we feel so much shame related to like the physical bodies that we sit here in. And so much of that is related to the idols of power and security and economic prosperity from our colonialist history. So I think it's, it does not surprise me that that's one of the things that stands out to both of you a lot.
And it doesn't, it's like something that when you, I think, when you start thinking about the world from the perspective of disabled people, or doing theology from like, by disabled people, it is often quite freeing. And I think it's just a good example that you two are kind of living out in real life of how thinking about the perspective of people on the margins, people who Jesus cares about most, is freeing, right. Like how he frees those people, frees everybody. And I'm not saying that I don't think it's not liberatory or whatever to me, I'm just saying that that was, the stuff that he was saying wasn't as new to me as it was to you.
Suzie Lahoud: Maybe it's not revelatory to you.
Sy Hoekstra: Revelatory. That's the word. Yeah.
Suzie Lahoud: Cause you've had to grapple with these things long before we did.
Sy Hoekstra: But I find reading and talking to people like him to be just incredibly refreshing. And like I said in the show, I think, often very healing because it's, you know, other people affirming the stuff that I kind of deal with on a regular basis and think about on a regular basis.
Suzie, how bout you?
Suzie Lahoud: I mean, to be honest, two kind of conversations or points have stuck out to me since we started this podcast. And actually, one of them was also from the conversation with Reverend Dr. Lamar Hardwick. I hope that's okay. This episode may just end up being about…
Sy Hoekstra: No shade at any of our other guests!
Suzie Lahoud: No! And that's the thing. We've had so many phenomenal conversations and I just feel so privileged, but I think part of it is just how these interactions end up intersecting with where we're at in our own lives. And for me, if you've been listening to this show, I shared a couple times about the fact that I'm pregnant. I'm expecting my second child. I hope that's not overshare to some people, but I think it's important to understand and to look at how these ideas are contextualized as women. How our theology is contextualized as women in our everyday experiences. And, you know, being pregnant and having a baby, that's such a powerful, spiritual experience. And it can be a really powerful time in terms of the way that you see and experience God. And part of that is because it kind of brings you to your breaking point in a lot of ways. It forces you to press up against your limitations as a human being. But also it's incredible that you're doing that as you're being a part of this process that you really have no control over of having new life brought into the world. And so it's really this kind of miraculous time where I almost feel like, it's almost like heaven opens up in a way to have this miracle happen.
And so all that to say, the day that we, and I'm going to get real personal here, and content warning for those of you who have had difficult experiences in your pregnancies, the day before we were supposed to record with Dr. Hardwick, I thought I was having a miscarriage. The night before. And so it ended up being this really traumatic 24 hours. And this was late in my pregnancy. I was about to start my second trimester. So it's just kind of one of those things that you, obviously no woman, no mother wants to go through that. No couple wants to go through that. And Sy and Jonathan were incredibly supportive and understanding. And, but I got some good news the next morning that actually everything, it looked like, as far as we knew, was going to be okay. It hadn't gone in the direction we thought it was going to go. And so I came back from the hospital and hopped on the podcast…
Sy Hoekstra: Literally.
Suzie Lahoud: Yeah, like right after walking through the door. And it was, just like Sy said, it was so healing for me. Because I realized what I had really been hitting up against was the fear of my humanity that he talks about, and just hitting up against my limitations as a physical being and things that are just completely outside of my control. Because, you know, in that moment, when you think you're losing a child, it's just, all you can do is release because there's nothing you can do.
And so I think I've still been kind of coming back to that daily, as I'm still, you know, more tired than I normally would be, and feel that, you know, dealing with some brain fog and lack of acuity, and feeling maybe not quite myself, but remembering that that's okay. And that God not only embraces me in that, but there can actually be celebration in that. There can be a blessing in that. And even, you know, I had a conversation with Sy after we had that experience with Dr. Hardwick, or that discussion with Dr. Hardwick, and he was saying, "You know, pregnancy is actually considered, legally, it's considered a disability." And it was interesting because, if I'm honest, prior to that podcast episode, Sy, if you had said that to me, inwardly I think some of my sort of feminist inclinations would have been like, "No, it's not. Don't call it a disability." Because something in me had to change in the way that I viewed disability. That you saying that is not telling me that I am less than. Or that I, you know, have something that I need to overcome to be worth as much, or to be able to, like you said, produce as much.
Sy Hoekstra: Right. No, I'm saying, "Welcome to the club. It's very nice in here. Come join us."
Suzie Lahoud: Exactly. And that was so freeing. And yeah, I think part of that was I'd found that community. I'm, you know, I'm like, "Well, if I'm in the club with Sy and Dr. Hardwick, you know, I'm in good company." I don't need to try to hide this and pretend that this isn't happening and pretend that I, you know… I function differently now. I can embrace that and yeah, be liberated in that. So that was really, really powerful for me and continues to be, like I said, something that I've been holding on to.
Sy Hoekstra: Okay. So Suzie, the really interesting point that I think that brings up- and this is again, very closely tied to colonialism- is patriarchy and racism and homophobia and ageism, like, whatever you want to think about, all of them are basically an accusation- not only, or not fundamentally- but involve an accusation that a whole class of people are disabled, right. So like, women are incapable of dealing with their emotions, right. Or are just fundamentally less rational. Like that's just, all that is saying is women are disabled. Black people are incapable of handling emotions, but in different ways, right. Become violent, are lazy. Like again, those are accusations of disability. Homosexuality was actually a diagnosable disability in The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual [of Mental Disorders] for a couple of versions of it.
So I just think being able to say both that, like all those things are untrue about people. Like they're not, it is not true that that entire class of people is disabled, but like the step further than that, like that, where you, I think you have to get to, if you're fully embracing the Kingdom of God would be to say, "But even if they were, that would not justify anything that we do to those people," right.
It isn't true. Like I want to be accurate, obviously. But I also, the accusation that you are, that is, that's what it is, it's an accusation that you're less than, because you're disabled. That's what, that's what racism is, you know. Or it, in some ways, obviously racism is more than that. You know, misogyny is more than that. But that's what it includes. So I just wanted to put that out there because I think that's kind of, it's just another way of stating what I think you just said you realized through that conversation.
Suzie Lahoud: Wow. Yeah. And that's such a profound point too, Sy, because it's, what you're pointing out is it's an accusation based on a lie. So you need to not only call out the accusation, you need to get to the root lie.
Sy Hoekstra: Yep.
Suzie Lahoud: Yeah, because again, also going back to our conversation with Professor Du Mez, which, I mean, I'll be honest. I could talk about that one all day long. I'm still processing that one. I mean, even this idea of, you know, telling men that certain behaviors or certain inclinations are inferior because they're too feminine. So that's, one, an accusation- that they're less of a man. But two, it's based on a lie that women are less than; that to bear any similarities to a female is an insult to your humanity.
Sy Hoekstra: Yeah, it's playing off that fear.
Suzie Lahoud: Yeah. And so I think, yeah, that's such a profound point that, you know, as we try to excavate our faith from these untruths and from these idolatries, we need to not only be able to recognize the accusation, but we need to be able to get past that to the lie at the root of that accusation. What is it that makes that accusation sting? And is that based on biblical truth or not? Is that based on how God sees us and sees humanity, or not?
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Sy Hoekstra: Thank you so much for joining us today, everybody, for part one of this two-part conversation that we have split up into these mini episodes, just to give people some time to reflect and chew on a little bit of the things that we've been learning. We appreciate you being with us.
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["Citizens" by Jon Guerra fades back in. Lyrics: "Where we arrive as immigrants/ And you call us citizens/ And you welcome us as children home/ Where we arrive as immigrants/ And you call us citizens/ And you welcome us as children home." Song fades out.]
Jonathan Walton: Maya was playing that game in elementary school where you write, you know, a word and then you do, like hers was "laugh," so it's L-A-U-F, and then you move your fingers through the paper, and you pick a number. And it's eight. And inside the eight is a question, right. And Maya…
Sy Hoekstra: Hey Jonathan…
Jonathan Walton: Yes?
Sy Hoekstra: Jonathan, is it you or Maya who doesn't know how to spell the word "laugh"?
Jonathan Walton: Oh, what did I say? L-A-U… Did I say L-A-U-F? What did I say?
Sy Hoekstra: [laughing] Yeah, that's what you said.
Jonathan Walton: [busts out laughing]
Suzie Lahoud: [in a faux British accent] LAUF.
Jonathan Walton: [in a faux British accent] LAUFTER. LAUFING.
Suzie Lahoud: Laufing. That's a very Winnie the Pooh spelling.


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Dream Log: October 19, 2000
(idea) by stash Wed Oct 18 2000 at 17:51:17
Party Foul
My mother decides to put on a huge party for my friends and I but the word leaks around town like it's sometimes apt to do and hundreds of people show up. Luckily, there are a few kegs, but I struggle all night trying to get the stereo to work, with no success. Sooner than later, everyone takes off from the decidely downbeat party. I also noticed a lot of homosexual activity in the front yard. One of my hetero friends even remarks to me that he made out with three girls and two guys. "Congratulations, Bill."
(idea) by dmd Thu Oct 19 2000 at 3:40:15
I hope I don't have anything for the dream log in the morning. I've been having some odd dreams lately, and when I have odd dreams, I generally wake and don't feel very rested. I've a midterm today, and not feeling rested on Hell Day is a bad thing.
I've been playing with my Vitamin Z levels a bit lately; that probably has something to do with the odd dreams. SSRIs are notorious for inducing intense dreams.
Eventually I know I'm going to start dreaming about Everything. It's just a matter of time. kanon42 has already, I presume, given that she talks in her sleep about it -- see thefez haunts the node mountain.
(idea) by Geekachu Thu Oct 19 2000 at 6:50:49
The dream I just experienced kept wavering between lucid and...whatever the opposite of lucid is. I was taking a test in class, but couldn't concentrate due to several distractions. I don't actually remember ever looking down at the test...there were simply too many other things to see. Nothing looked quite right...faces were vague, everyone was moving strangely. Like stop-motion, or people moving jerkily in a strobe light.
My professor, an immaculate dresser, was wearing blood-soaked rags and kept asking female students if they had any Kleenexes in their purses. I just knew she had killed anyone from the previous class who failed the exam. The windows were open, and a dense fog kept drifting into the room even though we were on the second floor and the sun was shining directly on my desk. The professor warned us that we had only a few minutes remaining, and I became very frightened since I hadn't even started. I tried looking over the shoulder of the girl in front of me, but she wasn't writing anything either. She kept staring at a photo album, as though the test meant nothing to her. I realized at that point that it wasn't really happening, but the awareness must have been incidental or fleeting, because I couldn't get up from my seat to leave.
My director entered through the window, which must have reminded me of Salem's Lot because her eyes were dead when she leaned in to say "You're going to be too late."
Something in the way she said that hit home hard enough to wake me up. I frantically checked the clock...
I've got all the time in the world.
(idea) by goneaway Thu Oct 19 2000 at 7:25:01
I actually fell asleep for a couple of hours and had one of the best and most impressive (in the special effects department) in something like five years. It was nice because it was a welcome respite from the horrible nightmares that I've been having about an old girlfriend of my father's who molested me when I was six. I finally got him (my dad) to admit that it happened about a year ago (which coincidentally is the last time we spoke.) What really sucks about it is that I'm 28 now and I've been plagued by bad dreams about it ever since it happened although I don't really have a conscious memory of what happened. It was kind of a typical scenario - sadistic psycho beats kid until he pees his pants, does a few things that I don't really wanna talk about, and then locks him in the closet for like ten hours. I'm not surprised that I don't remember much of it actively.
Anyhow, now that I've spilled my guts and probably told you more than you really want to know...the point to all of that gruesome detail (which I've considered deleting like ten times while I typed it) is that a sweet dream is a rare thing for me.
In this dream I was with my girlfriend at Montauk Point in New York. That particular place is like the furthest point out that you can get on land. We were sitting there watching the ocean when it just stopped. It froze with no motion and no sound. It was unbelievably beautiful and vivid. It just made us laugh for some reason and it was the kind of really long laugh that doesn't send you into spasms or make your stomach ache. It was just a laugh of astonishment.
When I woke up it felt like I'd had a full eight hours of sleep. It's weird because several hours later I'm still trying to shake off the haze of it - expecting that something utterly surreal yet incredibly beautiful is going to pop out at me. Sigh.
(place) by Muke Thu Oct 19 2000 at 12:01:35
The first bit I remember is sneaking into the concentration camp.
I was trying to catch up with some of my friends and maybe rescue them. I found the room they were staying in and tried to find a place to hide from the Nazis, but this girl from a couple of my classes had claimed like half the places in the room, which she could hardly have planned to use. Feh.
I managed to end up with the gargoyles at this fortress. It turned videogamey here. In the upper-right corner of my vision was an indicator in Roman numerals. There were 5 of us total, and the indicator predicted how many of us would make it out alive.
So we were trapped in this place trying to find a way out. It was like a pyramid at first, ancient and forgotten. We were running about at random, opening doors and running into guards and things. One of us opened a west door, and the number went all the way down--I had an idea that he had released a virus trap.
We started over. I went directly to the door that had the most promising aspect behind it. There was a schoolteacher inside who seemed not a bit alarmed at our presence. The number stayed V. All right. From here on, the place began to look less like a forgotten tomb and more like an office building.
There were different rooms, and we were doing all right, until we came to the computer lab. They were bringing in people from the concentration camp to use the computers for a while. I made my first big mistake... I noticed my university president was not a prisoner, but was up front with one of the guys in charge. When that guy took all the prisoners out to bring in the next round, I caught the prez's attention, identified myself and started trying to plead with him to help us out. It was working okay at first, but it was taking too long to say and I suddenly noticed the number going down. I started over again. I ran right up to him and asked for help directly. The number went down right away. Arrgh!
I ran away. I managed to get through the exit. The evil leader guy gave me a white rock, but I'm no fool--I hid it somewhere, in case he were able to track me with it. I managed to make it back to the school, but there was no help there. I ran back to the pyramiddy fortress and tried to save the gargoyles myself. I went to the computer lab, asked the prez, and he took us all up to the roof. There were these biplanes waiting for us. We all got in and flew off.
The dream didn't end there, but that's all I remember..
(dream) by ebbixx Thu Oct 19 2000 at 12:40:32
Walking along the eastern bank of the Missouri River, heading north... the river appears to be drying up. I am on my way to attend the funeral of a distant relative I'd never met in life. We find our way to the funeral, which is being held outdoors along the banks.
Apparently my relatives (most of whom I've never met, and they remain indistinct in this sequence) feel that the person officiating is terribly hilarious. There seem to be thousands of people attending this funeral, so the laughter is impressive.
Hexed Space
Another sequence. I am with people who are showing me around an enchanted space of some kind. There is a post which is part of a framework that is somewhere between a garden enclosure and the frame of a house. If you place a quarter on this post, it will almost instantly "zing" off and land somewhere around the borders of the space, which resembles a Monopoly-like gameboard.
Attacks and Questions
Isolated in a house somewhere, possibly near the hexed and enchanted spaces. People are shooting at us through the window frames of this house. My youngest daughter asks me why I don't seem to own a tiara... She seems puzzled that I have all these nice dresses, but not enough hair ornaments for her taste???
(idea) by jessicapierce Thu Oct 19 2000 at 15:02:03
Party at my grandma's house. I was nervous, didn't know anyone very well, didn't feel like being there. Only thing left was to get drunk so I did. Mikey was very kind to me, sat with me on the couch. I knew I was dreaming but I was drunk too so it didn't matter, I could detach and enjoy it. Beth called the pizza place, which was closed, so she yanked the popcorn machine through the phone line and ate the cake out of it. We were appalled and knew the cops would be showing up soon. We all left her in the kitchen and went to the back yard for more sex.
Man and a woman going up the stairs ahead of me. As they passed the bulletin board she straightened a photo and he barked at her not to touch it, he had taken those photos for her and he would not have her messing them up. She jumped and knocked it more crooked than before. When I went past, I fixed it and tried to read the writing on the back, but it was upside down. We all kept going up the stairs forever. I could see right up their skirts.
Wandering through New York we found Madonna in a princess dress, with pink hair and eyeshadow, standing on a frozen lake, cooing at the camera. Someone threw a golden ball and she giggled and ran to catch it. The photo showed her with hands cupped to catch a plummeting star.
I talked to the photographer, who turned out to be the one who'd built the stage and the false lake and arranged for silver snow to fall constantly over the woman on the stage. Everyone wanted to be the princess and have her picture taken. I asked him if he knew how many women he was making happy, and he said yes, he had counted. He made me get on stage. "What princess are you?" I was thinking. I walked around the chairs on the stage and kicked up silver snow. I had my hands deep in my coat pockets and head down thinking hard. He took my picture. "You are the Pacing Princess." he said.
(idea) by PhysicsChic Thu Oct 19 2000 at 15:19:36
I was in a different part of the world. It was hotter there. Some friends and I were in a toy store. I remember seeing the stupid giraffe the Toys 'R' Us uses as their mascot, but I don't think it could have been a Toys 'R' Us, because we definitely weren't in Canada or the States - it was too hot.
Anyways, there were all these big scorpions running around in the store. They were a really odd colour of green, like the new leaves in spring time, and they were about six inches long. They were running really fast, and could jump really high. I didn't know that until later, so I climbed up on a table to get away from the scorpions. Then I saw one jump up on a cashier's station and run along the cashier's arm. She screamed and shook it off. Then one was running towards the table, and jumped up on it. I am really scared of scorpions, so I tried to get away, but it didn't matter because it was running towards an open window that the table was pushed up against.
Another scorpion came in through the window and was running towards another girl (who I didn't know) on the table. She stamped her foot down really hard on it as it ran by, and squished its head. But then, all of the other scorpions started to attack. They would run towards people and jump up at them. It was so strange, they could jump about 5 feet in the air. We were trying to stamp on them and kill them, but they would jump up in the air and try to sting us.
And then I woke up. I still can't decide if this was worse than the spider dream I had a while back.
(idea) by George Dorn Thu Oct 19 2000 at 15:26:59
The girlfriend of a friend: For some reason, he was away for a while, and she confessed to me that she was lonely. I thought a long time, and then told her that I liked her a lot. She smiled, a sad smile, and said she knew, even though outwardly she thought I pretended to hate her. I said, "But what about him?" She said she loved him, but she was anybody to him, which made sense. I took her hand, and brought her away from the room, which was full of people. We talked, and she laid down on me while we talked. It was erotic, but not really sexual. Somehow, it wasn't really cheating. But the rest of the dream, a blur, was me escaping while he chased me in his boat of a car (A Chevy of some kind) which strangely reminded me of the Dukes of Hazard. I think maybe she was flirting with me at the club the other night, or I want to remember it that way.
The four Canadians of the Apocolypse: There was a block party of some kind on my street, which is silly because I live in the boondocks. But at the fair, a pair of sisters from Canada that spoke only French said something like "Can we have your belt?" I have a cool belt, but I knew what they really meant was that they needed a leash for their dog, a big black labrador. I brought them home with me, and searched for a leash, but could only find some twine. Meanwhile, their brother, a cute frenchman with a thin mustache and a beret, showed up and offered to help me look. While we searched the garage, I found an old painting of the Four Horsemen, and realized that these siblings and their dog were actually the subject of the painting. Despite the inference, I said, "Cool." I think I wanted the older sister. Maybe I'm sexually frustrated. Or the world's going to end. Or both.
(idea) by li Thu Oct 19 2000 at 15:47:30
When I was a kid my family pay our respect to the Vets by visiting the Pearl Harbor Memorial. There's a movie sequence. Boats to check out. Flowers to scatter. As a result, once in a while I have a dream about me being what I suppose is a spy sabataging a ship yard full of battleships. Or some other deal with the war.
Which side I played I have no idea. First I visit an office building to get my fix of mission data. Then I would implement them. One of the things I'm suppose to do is distract the ships. I have ballons I would set off to get the ship guns to shoot at them. It's funny. Seeing the sluggish gun barrels from half a dozen boat try to follow a ballon that's everywhere at once.
So there's silly, birthday ballons. And then I would attempt to plant backpacks of explosives on the pier next to the ships. I always put them in the wrong place and want to run back and move them. But just like the coyote vs. the road-runner sequence the bomb fuse would be fixed and too short. It turns out that I was afraid to return and rearrange the deposits. And since the bombs are in the wrong place and ineffective--the ships stay afloat.
I make my way back to the harbor office building. I find myself going through a hidden door in one of the admiral's private office and walking straight into a (think Being John Machovich) cave of sorts with rock linings and torches for lights. In the cave the admiral I am meeting show me a meditation box. Which is really like that game where you take pieces of support wood pieces off of the bottom of the arrangement, and hope that the result isn't having whole construction crumble on you.
What's the name of the game? Jinga I think. Anyway. The admiral would tell me, "Wish for something and take out a stone." (It's long stones--not wood sticks--still with me?) I did as instructed, repeating for subsequent wishes. I didn't give much if any thought to what to wish for--but I did wish I suppose. Something new happened, another stone fell loose (not the whole arrangement) as a result of my taking a stone, and the admiral looked at me. And I realize in his or her eyes that there's was a price for my wishes. I realize perhaps the fallen stone symbolized death. Someone died at that instant.
Anyway. I think this dream might have been brought on partially because of the October 2000 attack on the US Naval ship in Yeman. I wish I could bring those seamates' lives back. So much more to do on Earth before things are better.
(idea) by piq Thu Oct 19 2000 at 18:13:18
When we arrived at my old school, there were police cars moving around. For some reason, my new girlfriend's father was on the top of the hill, by the campus, and I had to avoid the police cars. As I moved on up, I realized that the police cars were actually school buses with reflective red and blue lights. Suddenly, the sun was up and I was talking to some of the Lower School parents who were outraged at my appearance.
I walk past them and arrive at a BP, where I wait for Thad and some of my other friends to get in the car. This is vivid. The sun was out, blue sky, and somehow we were trapped in the gas station. I woke up while Thad was looking for some beef jerky.
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SSRI SUV Naming your computer Chartreuse
monopoly Dream Log: May 30, 2002 Dream Log: October 21, 2000 October 19, 2000
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Curl hilarious shower Sylvia Plath
Missouri River baby fall leave
Ceremony of Carols
The -Ass Suffix and Beyond
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The Northern Soul Podcast is back!
Posted by Lucy McNamara | Nov 16, 2014 | Bands & Gigs, Music
Hurrah and huzzah – The Northern Soul Podcast returns for a second series!
Yes, producer and presenter Lucy McNamara is back with a monthly 40 minute show which will include interviews with major bands and musical artists, as well as showcasing up-and-coming talent. Interviewees will include musicians playing in the North of England and local names, and a slew of great music perfect for a Sunday evening.
This week, Lucy chats to Liverpool-based Dan Croll, once described as "Paul Simon jamming with Prince". Dan chats about about touring, playing with London Grammar, writing the new album, and collaborations.
Among the music being played this week is alt-J, Joan Armatrading, Lykke Li, Eliot Sumner, The Black Keys and London Grammar.
Photos of Dan Croll by Laura Lewis
You can get in touch with Lucy via Twitter @Lucy_McNamara or via Northern Soul @Northern_Soul_
To listen to Series One of The Northern Soul Podcast, click here
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